George May Keim

George May Keim ( born March 23, 1805 in Reading, Pennsylvania, † June 10, 1861 ) was an American politician. Between 1838 and 1843 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Keim received a good education and then studied at Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1826 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Reading in this profession. He also served in the state militia, in which he brought it up to major general. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1837 and 1838 he was a delegate to a constitutional convention in his home state.

Following the resignation of Mr Henry Muhlenberg germ was at the due election as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 17 March 1838. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1843 in Congress. Since 1839 he was chairman of the militia committee. The time from 1841 was marked by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

Between 1843 and 1850, seed was U.S. Marshal for the Eastern part of the State of Pennsylvania; in 1852 he served as mayor of his hometown of Reading. In the presidential election of 1860 he was one of the electors of Stephen A. Douglas. George Keim died on 10 June 1861 in Reading. His nephew William High Keim (1813-1862) was also a congressman.